Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science – Paul Gross and Norman Levitt
Attacks on Post-modernism are so frequently right-wing screeds. This one doesn’t even try to hide it.
Non-Fiction
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin – Benjamin Franklin
A whole lot of bravado from one of America’s founders.
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You Look Like A Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place – Janelle Shane
As far as I can tell, Janelle Shane wanted to put a cute and cuddly face on Artificial Intelligence, and this is exactly what the field needs.
The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone – Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach
Intelligence is communal. I asked around, and apparently this makes sense.
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For Small Creatures Such as We – Sasha Sagan
Without it being a comment on the book itself, I have no idea why I read this.
The Crossroads of Should and Must – Elle Luna
Self Help book are always a let down, but this one is particularly empty.
Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being – George Lakoff & Rafael E. Núñez
Some books you just have to return to in order to fully grasp them. This one will need a ”round 3” from me.
Occasional Views Volume 1: “More About Writing” and Other Essays – Samuel R. Delany
20 year old me would have enjoyed this a lot more than me now.
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The Science of Storytelling – Will Storr
This book felt like the first PhD literature review I ever gave a shit about.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum – Katherine Boo
Non-fiction that reads like fiction. Pretty enjoyable, actually.
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Failures in Polymathy 